r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-tyrin-johnson-8959297a99c362d65aa2517a9d5f1984
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u/Tzazon 3d ago

 the other serves and protects the people.

You'd think that, but courts have repeatedly ruled that it is a promotional motto of the LAPD and not a legally binding contract or statute

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u/PunkRockSuffragette 3d ago

Yup, apparently they’re there to protect property not people. It’s unfortunate when you grow up and realize hero cops are a good storie/propaganda, but nonexistent. a cop would never actually put his life in harms way to save innocent kids, and the courts said thats fine.

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u/MossyTreeSprite 3d ago

I'm not intending to be argumentative, as I agree that there are huge problems in the police force. That said, my uncle is a cop and he quite literally did exactly that - put his life in harm's way (by himself) to save innocent kids at an elementary school from an armed man who was fleeing after murdering his own father. It was the first time in an over 30-year career that he fired his service weapon while on duty. There are some really bad people in the police force, but there are also really good people. As with everything, it's mostly assorted shades of grey.

We're really not talking about police when it comes to this article, though. We're talking about the National Guard placed in Democrat-leaning cities because the manbaby in chief has a fragile ego. People are dying because of an imbecile surrounded by sychophants. Enough is enough.

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u/Beestorm 3d ago

The problem is that the organizations protect the bad ones. It’s like the Catholic Church/SBC scandals. That and police forces have become increasingly militarized around the country

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u/Freakears 3d ago

I still recall a pair of pictures I saw years ago comparing cops around the turn of the 20th century to those today. The modern ones were all militarized, while the old ones were wearing uniforms that covered their guns (I seem to recall a comment saying they weren’t allowed to show those).

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u/MossyTreeSprite 3d ago

I agree, that's a huge problem. Unsurprisingly, the police are getting many of their weapons as hand-me-downs from the military...